Just use rampardos lmao.
Insane calcs, but I have skill-issues with 80% acc moves.
As an avid Heatran enjoyer,
Maybe you could use wonder room in the last slot. Absolutely shits on dondozo, who now takes massive damage from hyperspace fury.
Hoopa-Unbound @ Black Glasses
Ability: Magician
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Lonely/Adamant Nature
- Knock Off
- Hyperspace Fury
- Psychic Noise / Taunt
- Destiny Bond / Taunt / Ice Punch / Gunk Shot / Drain Punch
Regular Stall tend to rely on Tera for Dark resistance (except Clefable). This guy can be exploited a little.
He has 2 useful Dark STAB that don't miss with 160 base Atk, one takes away items and the other Ignores Protect / Subs. Psychic Noise actively blocks healing and Hoopa-U can sacrifice itself if it has done enough or has extra coverage.
Problem; Other Dark Types exist, Kingambit brutal power and Taunt Roaring Moon, but Hoopa-U has an exploitable niche from the beginning, doesn't rely on a single use of Booster Energy and doesn't need to wait for its 5 allies to faint.
Edit: This aberration, Uber in Gen 6, was in RU until a few days ago.
Thats cheesy for sure, although it would be extremely funny and force your opponent to sac something. I can see it working out.
I agree. Hoopa isn’t even better against stall, since a stored power abuser+tera dark black glasses gambit destroys stall.
My top 5:What is your Top 5?
Some personal preferences here over the outright best and/or most broken, but I believe these 5 are some of the best mons to build teams around or with in the entire tier. It's just a lot of good glue. Gambit, D-nite, and Rillaboom have 3 of the best priority available, which is extremely important for gen 9. I would add Raging Bolt to that after the latest DLC, but it doesn't make the top 5 cut for me. When I'm building a team, I generally start with at least one or two of these five somewhere in there. Stall would obviously be different.
deserves an honorable mention. But it lacks the overall defensive utility of these other mons.
Who’s the most overrated mon in OU?
or
IMO, Skarmory is just not as good as Corv. And if you want a passive spiker with a ground immunity, use Gliscor. Gliscor can absorb status, too. There is maybe a role compression case for Skarm sometimes with the typing and Whirlwind. But in general, take Corv and/or Gliscor depending on your team's needs. They are better mons.
Iron Boulder belongs in UU or UUBL or whatever lower tier. The only reason why it isn't a clear #1 for me is because I don't think many players are high enough on it to overrate it in the first place. This should drop soon.
gets an honorable mention. It avoided this spot purely because something like Tera Fire can be used to make a very reliable attacker on more otherwise more defensive teams. On more offensive teams, I feel there are usually better options except in niche cases. It's useable. But I tend to find it underwhelming.
Who’s the most underrated mon in OU?
or
I find Corviknight to be more useful than Skarmory on average. It has better mixed bulk and can be invested for similar defensive bulk. It's more useful as a pivot, too. So it tends to be less of an outright momentum sink. The Defog is not nearly as useless with Ghold in the tier as some people think because you have U-Turn and teammates. You just need to actually use your head with it this gen. Skarmory has spikes. But there are much better spikers for the tier. The main thing Corviknight lacks is phasing, I guess.
I have done extensive testing with Deoxys-Speed and I still strongly feel that it is excellent. It's not one of these mindless mons where you can't think. And you need to optimize the EVs correctly (like limiting your speed investment) to get the most out of it. But it is very strong, particularly as a mixed attacker. There is also the fact that its speed tier make it a better PP staller than D-Defense. It's just an excellent mon and it is largely underutilized.
Who do you think will rise/drop?
Rise:
Drop:
What’s your favorite anti-stall core/set/mon?
Tera Dark Knock Off is just very hard to switch into. Mixed attacking means you can hit dedicated physical or special walls like Dondozo or Blissey with the other attacking type very hard. You can potentially be played around by a good player, but it's a gamble in many cases. Theoretically, there are only a handful of mons that can safely switch into it.
And this is another reason why Corv is better than Skarm. A mixed attacking D-Speed can do about 40-49% with Life Orb Ice Beam. A fully defensively invested Corv will only take about 29-35% from the same special attack, making recovery much more reasonable. This is just one example of Corv just being a better all purpose wall without special defense investment.
i personally go with flare blitz over heat crash on the fatshredder set because heat crash does a lot less against dondozo. being locked into raging fury against dozo is bad if the opponent plays it properly (i.e. sacks something to bring it in safely and then clicks curse), so it's better to just do the 50% with flare blitz as they curse and then switch to a dedicated dozo answer as they decide whether to attack or rest
This is a so true oomfie moment. I have been loving the utility and role compression it adds while still threatening mons with a ton of chip
Personally, tera fairy has been working well for me. You first trap ghold or glowking, then you tera fairy against something like a moon or tusk and they can't do meaningful damage to you while you destroy them with magma storm, earth power and tera blast. Really fun.
I’ve actually tried ditto in OU and it wasn’t that bad on balance.
Can you elaborate on this? I wanted to make Ditto work to fix several different niche team ideas, but I couldn't. Balance as well? I find that very interesting.
Maybe with April Fools', we'll get a Lugia suspect test. Or maybe Zarel will quickban every mon from S to A+ in the viability rankings. That might be a good April Fools' joke.
I just ran choice scarf and it was a decent form of speed control but yes it did struggle with booster speed users. Mainly it just was good against things like roaring moon.
Maybe a more defensive ev spread would be better, since d-tail is negative priority, so speed is much less important.
The biggest problem with Ditto isn't even hazards. It's speed control. You can't outrun a faster BE mon unless you got setup ahead of time. So everybody runs priority. Ditto has to face both those things to try to be relevant. This requires a lot more speed control support.
I see. That just sounds like it would still be too problematic for me. Roaring Moon with BE speed is the bigger problem for most teams that aren't defensive.
I do wonder how ditto without scarf would work, I know it may seem horrible, and it probably is, but hear me out.
Usable most of the time Heavy Duty BootsFocus sash Red Card Custap Berry (but this one I wouldn't blink an eye if you said its a gimmick item) Salac Berry | Gimmick Items Booster energyQuick Claw |
For all we know, this could be an early April fools
Focus Sash is good, but requires hazard support.
I didn't think of grassy seed, that could definitely be good.
congratulations, you did it, you managed to make the gouging fire dnb announcement the second worst news you delivered in march
